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Wavey Davey here is some published government research data to prove what nonsense you are talking:
http://tinyurl.com/m8ycnqmhttp://tinyurl.com/m4k6u6q
https://http://tinyurl.com/l3aes6x
To summarise the findings were:
With adult cyclists, police found the driver solely responsible in about 60%-75% of all cases, and riders solely at fault 17%-25% of the time.
The causes aree mainly inconsiderate and dangerous driving. Recommendations are Reduced speed limits, stronger traffic law enforcement and cycle-friendly road design.
Get your facts straight next time buddy boy!

Davey,
It's rather YOU missing the point here. Yes, some roads are dangerous, mostly due to bad driving and poor cycling infrastructure. By not letting your kids out on bikes, you are the victim of scaremongering like this by the Post. I have been cycle commuting for 14 years and the worst thing that ever happened is I came off in a quiet street and grazed my knee. Cycling is quit safe and beneficial for your health. Better get your kids on bikes Davey before they turn into car-dependents.
BTW, there are a lot of car drivers who collide with inanimate objects every year.
And also, to which NHS stats are you referring? -- publish links?????

@mark1864 - excuse me mate, it is cyclists themselves that have been spouting nonsense about how dangerous the roads are. They are their own worse enemies when it comes to deterring people from taking up cycling. In fact most of us "impressionable" ones on here have referred to NHS statistics that prove that cars pose little threat to cyclists and that most serious cycling injuries are caused by cyclists themselves falling off entirely on their own! Of course ironically cyclists then come along and deny that and try to claim that it is cars and roads that are dangerous!!! MAKE YOU MINDS UP. Seems to me that when you want to fraudulently syphon money away from NHS cancer services etc to pay for your hobby you claim that the roads are dangerous and that you need you own VIP lanes. But when we agree with you and say "well if it is that dangerous we shouldn't be encouraging people to cycle" you change your tune and say it is safe as houses!!! Which is it buddy boy!?

@ britishmade Your "logic" as to how the cyclist is to blame for this incident leaves me completely speachless. Words fail me, this is another human being you are talking about, had this be a car V car, it would most likely have been a relatively simple insurance claim. The person riding this bike was so very lucky not to have received either life changing injuries or been killed. You made various assumptions about what the cyclist may have been doing prior to the incident, unless you were there I am unclear, yet again, as to how you came to that conclusion.

This is UTTERLY RUBBISH JOURNALISM as it scaremongers the impressionable (ie Davey Smith) into thinking the roads are all dangerous. This crash did not happen in Bristol. Would a fatal car crash in say, London, bear any relation to you driving here?. No, it wouldn't.
Mike Norton - Post editor - you are stooping to a new low by trying to scare people.
The proposed improvements will make cycling safer, but a lot of people still need to use roads. I've been commuting by bike since 2000, and since 2005 a ten-mile round trip from staple hill to Bedminster. I have never had a collision with a car.
This is just scaremongering by the Post.
BTW all, car tax doesn't pay for the roads - everyone's income tax does.

Well as far as I can see, and the first thing I saw being a motorcyclist was the car slowing down and indicating, maybe if I was the cyclist I would have taken caution instead of riding so fast, it is obvious it was an accident, and a driver has so many different angles to observe in such a short time frame, and a cyclist from the distance he would have made that observation from was probably not even visible and was speeding along that road at some pace, never even saw the car? what was he doing then picking a new track on his mp3?
I think it is low of the angle of the headline on this article, and also the dramatic spin that the cyclist is adding i.e Patrick said: "He came out of nowhere. The impact was so quick I had no time to stop" and "I hit the windscreen with my shoulder and it shattered straight away - that shows how fast and hard he hit me. I think that shows how hard YOU hit HIM. The car would have been slowing for the turn. I don't know what you were looking at, but the driver of the car was looking at the path to make sure no pedestrians, after 2 seconds before looking in his mirrors and over his shoulder, and before that up the road where he saw nothing, because the cyclist road position he looked miles away...... yet the BIKE WAS BOMBING DOWN THE ROAD. Obviously not observing ANYTHING, and showing NO CAUTION at all. Which is STUPID considering how VUNERABLE he should know HE is. Although driving off was bad, people panic and get scared and run for home! But come on now, seems to me the cyclist could have and should have been very very VERY AWARE that there is a car there!?!?!? SO WATCH IT IN FUTURE.